February 01, 2008

Things I miss/don't miss about Ethiopia

While only a week away from my former home in Bole can't give me proper perspepctive, here are some things I notice that I miss and don't miss about being away from Ethiopia:

MISS:
• my Habesha and Fefenge Ethiopian friends
• the weather (well, nine months of the year anyway)
• ubiquitous hawazi
• household help
• home-made dog food [item added by Toby]
• the best meal in town, washed down with the best wine in the house, for $30.
• The best coffee in the world, everywhere, so cheap it's almost free.
• Home-cooked gomen, misera wot, red-tef injera, and shiro

NOT MISS:
• ETC
• The bellowing
• The internet, 1998 style, and censored
• 100% import extortion/duty
• Thinking about journalists still in prison before I post something on my blog
• dust in the dry season and mud in the rainy season
• Ferenge! Ferenge! Ferenge! Gimme one birr!
• ETC (repeated for emphasis)

well, i'll miss your posts. For a while there catching up on your posts, i thought janet and toby were your wife and kid. didn't you have one of each? am i making this up?
anyway, welcome back to your home. Thanks for the interesting commentary from addis.

Welcome to your "one minute microwave" life. Speed was your top of the many complain lists you had, so you're down with one complain. Oh, also welcome to a "beggar free society", yeah right! Go to any American metro areas and tell us your findings. At least, we're very poor and the circumstances made us to beg. Your country is the "richest" country in the world and What's your excuse for the poor homeless and the high tech beggers? Shame on you! you're making fun of those poor people.

I'm surprised you missed a few things about Ethiopia. You seem very disconnected,cluless with the Ethiopian society culture, custom and i always thought you were forced to go or you were in mandatory work assignments. For your next life, stay where you belong or do some research, please read before you step your foot somewhere you're not familiar.

Wait, he did have a picture of a woman and a young girl and did talk about them. Whether he took them off for privacy (Keep their faces away from the gov agents, who regularly monitor and spam this blog)or his wife packed up and left, it is none of our business.

Welcome home Stateside. ...certainly wikk miss your entries from your previous station! Here at the farm, we may have some difficulty finding a replacement agent to slip back in country. Your highly perceptive remarks will be soely missed!!!
Bloody hell, ...first Andrew, and now you!!!!
You young'uns gonna be the death of me!!!
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